If you’ve been looking for a personal storage solution designed to deliver outstanding performance, reliability and capacity for media applications, you just found it! And with Symply you get personalized support when you need it from knowledgeable media and entertainment professionals.

SPARK, is available in compact 4 Bay or 8 Bay desktop formats, with capacities up to 96TB and 192TB respectively. SPARK is designed to ignite your creativity by delivering consistently high throughput and low latency with plug-and-play convenience so you can do what you do best and not worry about managing your storage. SPARK is ideal for media workflows in post-production, on-set, VFX, graphics, delivery, and in-house creative.

As a key component of the Symply product family, SPARK is equally at home in an office, studio, machine room, or on-set.  When designing the SPARK, we worked with some of the top developers and manufacturers around and worked with media industry professionals to add the features and capabilities media professionals require. From simple things such as making the system more compact and lighter than other systems on the market using high-quality metal, alloys and composites and adding a carry handle, to optimizing it for the new generation of multi-actuator hard drives that deliver SSD-like performance at a fraction the cost. For more information on SPARK with multi-actuator hard drives, check out the SPARK XT.

 

Field Serviceable

 

We also know how important deadlines are – time is money, and nothing is worse than missing a deadline due to equipment failure. Beyond hard drive hot swap-ability, the SPARK allows fast replacement of fans and power supplies. No need to send the system back with your valuable content on it or wait for an exchange system to arrive. The optional SymplySAM (self-assisted maintenance kit) comes packed in its own transport case with full instructions that have you back up and running in minutes. And if you ever need it, professional Symply support is just an email or phone call away.

 

SPARK Rack Kit

SSD Speeds – HDD Price. How?

 

MACH.2 HDDs really are what the future looks like for HDD storage, as HDD capacities continue to grow, which is leading to the performance per TB dropping. Multi-actuators deliver huge performance increases and lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) as capacities increase. When it comes to the SPARK XT you immediately see the benefits. Each MACH.2 drive now has an 18 TB capacity, proving capacities of 72TB and 144TB in the 4 Bay and 8 Bay configurations respectively.

 

And the performance is staggering. The 8 Bay SPARK XT can provide real-world performance of up to 2,900MB/s* reads and write speeds clocking in at 1,900MB/s* when tested with popular benchmarking tools from AJA, ATTO and Blackmagic.  The 4 Bay SPARK XT provides performance equal or exceeding that of its 8 Bay peers offering a compact high performance, high capacity and highly transportable Thunderbolt storage solution.   The SPARK XT provides more than enough performance for the most demanding workflows, VFX, simulation, and complex file ingest and delivery.

 

This epic performance is truly game-changing reducing the need to trade off capacity and increase cost for SSD solutions, the SPARK XT provides equivalent SSD performance with hard drive capacities.  Not only does this unleash the creative abilities of post-production but it enables DITs to be more productive by dramatically increasing the speed at which content can be backup from camera cards on set.  Even with multiple copy jobs, the SPARK XT maintains levels of performance that leaves the competition in its dust.